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(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1 O. PEPER -& O. O. SOBINSKI. TRACK CLEANINGATTACHMENT FOR STREET CARS. No. 378,374. Patented Feb.21, 1888.

I 2 SheetsSheet 2. C. PEPER & C. O. SOBINSKI. TRAGK CLEANING ATTACHMENTFOR STREET CARS.

(No Model.)

No. 378,374. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

N. PETERS. Fhalo-Lnhngnnhev'. Wnhinglo UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

CHRISTIAN PEPER AND CHARLES O. SOBINSKI, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI; SAIDSOBIXSKI ASSIGNOR OF OIIE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO SAID IEPER.

TRACK-CLEANING ATTACHMENT FOR STREET GARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,37 dated February21, 1888.

Application filed December ill, 1887. Serial No. 255,607. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHRISTIAN PEPER and CHARLES G. Somnsnr, both of thecity of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Track-Cleaning Attachments for Street-Oars, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, and in which Figure I is a side elevation of our improvedattachment. Fig. II is a top view showing the running-gear of the car.Fig. III is a section taken on line III III, Fig. I.

Our present invention relates to a device for lifting the scraper fromthe track, it being applicable to such a scraper as that shown in thepatent issued to us November 18, 1887, No. 37 2, 816; and our presentinvention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described,and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents part of a car. 2 represents thescraper, which is the same in this application as in the patent referredto, and will not be here particularly described. It is provided with abar or arm, 3, as in the said patent, by which it is connected to thecar.

Our present invention relates entirely to a means for lifting thescraper from the track when desired, and this means consists of togglcarms or bars 4, pivoted together at 5, and connected to the arm 3 at 6and to a fixture at 7. The fixture we show consists of a hanger, S,secured to the body of the car. At the lower end of the hanger 8 ispivoted an arm, 9, to the upper end of which is connected one end of abar, 10, the other end of whichis connected at 11 to the uppertoggle-arm, 4;. There is also pivoted to the hanger 8 an arm, 12, to theupper end of which is connected one end of a pull rod, 13, the other endof which is made fast to a lever, 14, pivoted at 15 to the bottom of thecar, the connection at 15 being preferably made by means of a rock-shaftsecured to the bottom of the car by means of boxes 16. Connected to thisshaft is another arm, 17, to which is connected one end of rod, 18, madefastat its upper end to the lower end of an operating-lever, 19, pivotedat 20 to the our, and the upper end of which passes through a guard oryoke, 21, secured to the front or dash board of the car.

We have described the device for raising one of the scrapers; but thereare, as shown in Fig. II, preferably two of these scrapers on a car, andthe arm 9 of each scraper is preferably made fastt-o the hangerS, (therebeing a hanger on each side of the can) by means ofa rockshaft, 22, thatextends across the car. The preferred connection between the arm 9 oneach side of the car and the arm 12 is made by a short sleeve, 23, asshown in Fig. II.

The operation of the device is as follows: lVhen the driver desires tolift the scraper from the ground, he moves the lever 19 in the directionindicated by the arrow in Fig. I, and may engage it behind ashoulder orcatch, 24, on the guard 21, as shown in Fig. III, to hold the scraper orscrapers in elevated position. As he moves the leverin this direction,its lower end, the rod 18, the arms 1 1 and 17, the rod 13, the arms 9and 12, the toggle bars or arms 4, and the scraper are moved in thedirection indicated by the arrows in Fig. I, and the scraper is thusraised from the track, this movement of the lever causing the togglearmsto be raised through means of the de scribed connection between thetoggle-arms and the hangerS, consisting of the bar 10 and arms 9 and 12.Thelifting of the togglearms of course lifts the scraper, to which theyare connected. To allow the scraper to pass over an obstruction when itis in use without operating the lever 19, we form a slot, 26, in the endof the rod 13, through which the pin passes that connects the rod to thearm 12.

It is evident that the inner end of the bar 10 could be connected to thesame arm as the inner end of the rod 13, instead of having a separatearm, as described; and it is also apparent that the inner end of the rod18 could be con nected to the same arm as the outer end of the rod 13.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. In a track-cleaner, the combination ofthe frame to which the scraper is secured and means for lifting theframe, consisting, essentially, of toggle arms or bars, a bar connectedto the toggle-arms, and a lever located at the end of the car, to whichsaid bar is connected by suitable arms and rods, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

2. In a track-cleaner, the combination of the frame to which the scraperis secured, togglearms connecting the frame to a fixed point, a barconnected to the toggle-arms, an arm to which the bar is connected, ahanger to which said arm is pivoted, a second arm pivoted to saidhanger, rod connected to said second arm at one end, and a lever towhich said rod is connected and by which the parts are operated,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a track-cleaner, the combination of the frame to which the scraperis secured, togglearms connecting the frame to a fixed point, hangersecured to the bottom of the car and to which the toggle-arms areconnected at one end, a bar connected to the toggle-arms, arms pivotedto the lower end of said hanger and to one of which said bar isconnected, a rod connected at one end to the other of said arms, an armpivoted to the bottom of the car, to

which said rod is connected, arms pivoted to the front portion of thecar, to one of which said rod is connected and to the other of which oneend of a rod, 18, is connected, and an operating-levcr to which theother end of said rod 18 is connected, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

4. In atrack-cleaner, the combination ofthe frame to which the scraperis secured, toggle arms 4, bar 10, hanger 8, to which the togglearms areconnected, a rock-shaft secured to the lower end of said hanger, an arm,9, to which the said bar 10 is secured, arm 12, rod 13, one end of whichis connected to said arm 12, arm 14, to which theother end of the rod 13is connected, arm 17, rod 18, and lever 19, all substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

CHRISTIAN PEPER. C. O. SOBINSKI.

In presence-of- GEO. I-I. KNIGHT, Enwn. S. KNIGHT.

